• ayyy@sh.itjust.works
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        12 hours ago

        They can install solar panels or wire or something and not have to be away from their family for months at a time. Also the vast majority of seamen shipping oil are coerced captive workers from impoverished places with confiscated passports and no rights. Employed isn’t really the right word to use.

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        1 day ago

        Just put some money into advanced sailing ship tech and in a decade we’ll have advanced clippers with many more seamen needed.

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        1 day ago

        So overseas shipping rates drop and some of the companies convert their ships to give joy-rides in seas (because cheaper sea travel), while some seamen get to explore avenues like deep sea exploration (which seems to be a really underdeveloped field) and development.

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          1 day ago

          Somehow I’m not seeing your average deck hand transitioning into deep sea exploration.

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            6 hours ago

            Well, the average deck hand can stay working at the normal ships that are shipping other stuff.
            The above average ones can become a deck hand for the newer vehicles for deep sea operations.

            Both are probably already paid low enough that corporate can easily pay them while reducing shipping rates at the same time.

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              6 hours ago

              I’m thinking the deep sea exploration pays a bit more than a guy who can hook some cables on a crate.

              But wtf do I know…

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                5 hours ago

                But of course, if the extra exploration rate can be afforded, then so can their salaries.
                The only thing that matters is whether there will be someone wanting to do so.